wattle and gum

Sally-Anne, 22 years old, go by she/her pronouns, living in Melbourne and trying to get my shit together. I like art, craft, political thought, my housemates and all sorts of stuff.

[wattleandgum]

There is a release date for Prometheus 2, I repeat, THERE IS A RELEASE DATE FOR PROMETHEUS 2.

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[philosophically] we all got a chicken duck woman thing waitin for us

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@wattleandgum, @feynmansrainbow, i’m so sorry

[wattleandgum]

only on tumblr to complain and reblog bushes of love

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[wattleandgum]

It’s my own damn fault for reading it because I knew it would be bad BUT I just read a comment where someone called same-sex attraction "the sham that it is" and it is my own damn fault for reading the comments on an article where the author is 'not sure where they stand' on transgender people existing but holy shit, straight cis people, adults in particular, need to shut up forever about shit they do not understand and I am so mad right now at everything.

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[celeryjiaozi]

i believe that obsessive contemplation of our inhumanities can end up convincing us of the inevitability of our badness, and that we likely do ourselves a grave disservice by staying riveted by top-of-the-hour, ad nauseam “proof” that humans always have steadily pursued (and, the spurious logic goes, thus always will pursue) the bloody businesses of genocide, state-sponsored war, terrorism, and individual acts of sadism across space and time. i agree that if we don’t turn our attention away–or at least broaden our focus–we run the risk of floating further and further into the state described by walter benjamin as “an alienation that has reached such a degree that [mankind] can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

maggie nelson, the art of cruelty: a reckoning (via ethergaunts)

[wattleandgum]

horror themes I guess?

In other news, for the first time ever I had the thought/image of myself as a monster, like a humanoid monster/human turned monster, and tbh it’s probably gonna fuck me up for a long long time.

[wattleandgum]

anxiety, stream of consciousness

I’ve been like badly physically anxious tonight just from being in this house alone: I don’t know if it’s muscle memory from all the shit I was feeling just before I moved away (in the last months before we movied I hardly ever stayed here, especailly late afternoon/night time, because I was so so physically anxious that something Bad would happen while I was away from stuff and I felt physically sick all the time), or the memory of past loneliness and no self-confidence. I’ve been thinking a lot in the past week about how I’m going to Let Go of the constant berating myself for not doing things - at all or perfectly - because it’s firstly unfair and secondly irrational, but how I seem unable to. Thinking tonight about how I definitely believe that as a general rule people deserve basic kindness from the world (in combination with receiving appropriate responses from their actions, good or bad), and how I deserve basic kindness for myself from myself, but it’s so hard to make it stick without starting a laundry list of how undeserving I feel I am (not rationally, just deeply)! I feel so exhausted and beaten down by my lack of self-confidence, which is self-defeating I know, I just don’t know where to go with it and when I don’t know I panic. I wish I knew how to reframe this so be able to let myself love myself more, treat myself with more positivity and nourishment. Sometimes I feel really damn lost and far from where I could be happy in any sort of stable way. I feel sad about this, I still feel a bit anxious but not as bad as before. I’m worried about where to go with this. I want to excise all my demons, it’s slow though.

[wattleandgum]

Went to a Carnival themed party, have to be at work in less than 8 hours on the other side of town?

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Steven Universe tarot card deck, bag made by me, embroidery design by SoapyBacon.

Please do not remove caption or links.

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umm!!!!!!

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reasons moulin rouge should've been about lesbians

- satine’s whole bird-in-a-cage ‘one day I’ll fly away’ imagery, talk about being in the closet

- Christian’s entire character. what man is that sensitive and considerate? a butch lesbian in a nice old-timey shirt, on the other hand…

- you ever watch that scene where they sing together on the elephant and you’re like, why the hell would a het couple be so reluctant and scared. there’s an easy solution to that, my friend

- imagine the ‘roxanne’ number but with the added theme of a lesbian couple being trodden down by a heteronormative world. powerful, I tell you

- the duke is a much more upsetting antagonist as a whole when you consider him as a threat to a lesbian couple’s happiness, actually

- Toulouse lautrec hanging out with them would also make a ton more sense, historically

- ‘freedom, beauty, truth and love’ maaaaaate

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more

- ‘it’s about love overcoming all obstacles!’

- ‘silly of me to think you could fall in love with someone like me’ 👀👀👀

- ‘we should be lovers’ ‘we can’t do that’ :0

- the moon sings in celebration every time they make out like come on

- they’re so bad at hiding as a couple tbh they could only get away with it due to Gal Pal Syndrome

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ALSO sorry if this has already been mentioned BUT being set in ~bohemian 1890s montmartre~ it totally confounds all this “but WHAT ABOUT THE HISTORICAL ACCURACY?!!” shit that’s used to criticise lgbt history-related media so often 

so moulin rouge takes place in paris in 1899-1900, right? the same time, the american heiress and writer natalie clifford barney was living in paris, saw the famous courtesan liane de pougy onstage at a dance hall and fell in love with her. the story goes that she showed up at her house in a page costume and announced she was “a page of love sent by sappho” (like, seriously) and “although de pougy was one of the most famous women in france at the time, constantly sought after by wealthy and titled men, barney’s audacity charmed and seduced her.” it’s literally a slightly more lowkey elephant scene! anyway they had an affair that became The Talk Of Paris, de pougy wrote a book about it that went through 69 editions in the first year, meanwhile barney’s publishing what might have been some of the first openly lesbian poetry since, idk, ancient greece, publishing it under her own name as “the best way of getting rid of nuisances” (i.e. attention from straight men). (sources: suzanne rodriguez’s biography of barney, wild heart: a life)

“but that still has nothing to do with the moulin rouge specifically!” well, i’m at least 90% sure that it was at the moulin rouge where in 1907 the pantomime le rêve d’égypt was performed starring colette (yeah, that colette) and her lover mathilde de morny, where a riot nearly broke out because of their onstage kiss. (it’s not quite ‘spectacular spectacular’, but, y’know)

also shoutout to renée vivien, one of natalie clifford barney’s other lovers, who was a british poet living in montmartre writing lesbian poetry in french and translating sappho and whatnot, literally a real-life female version of ewan macgregor’s character, right? 

and particularly in the context of toulouse-lautrec’s work there’s been some analysis of the intersection between the lesbian community of turn-of-the-century paris and montmartre counterculture, so, like.

(tl;dr jeez baz luhrmann what’s with all this unnecessary and historically inaccurate heterosexuality huh) 

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A Year With 13 Moons by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

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Wait a second, am I tripping balls?

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HELP I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING

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Sometimes life is just beautiful.

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Just died. Someone needs to set up speakers in the woods and just let this play

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Ameli was a good movie

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France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Shops To Chants Of 'Gas The Jews'

France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars. 

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please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please 

[givemealltheowls]

Listen.  I love my followers and my mutuals dearly.  You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’?  I’m talking about this shit.  I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time.  Please stop ignoring this.  This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.

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i was on the train and 3 drunk girls saw me and said i had nice brown eyes so they sang “brown eyed girl” to me

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I threw up at a frat party and I was crying in the bathroom and a drunk girl went upstairs to get me a shirt and came back with a sweater and a kitten.

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At the last party I went to three drunk girls fishtail braided my hair by committee

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a drunk girl drew an eye on the back of my hand and then patted it with satisfaction and  whispered “count olaf”

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once at a barbecue a drunk girl gave the surgical scar on my shoulder a butterfly kiss and said “you’re cured”

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A drunk girl at a bar I was at became worried that I wasn’t getting enough nutrition and proceeded to hold peanuts to my lips and just keep saying “peanut peanut” until I would eat it. And after I allowed her to feed me a peanut she pet my hair and said “Thank you”.

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Drunk girls, saving your life one wtf at a time.

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one time a drunk girl started crying because she said she loved my eyebrows so much

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Why did you write "i am not allowed to watch this movie but sometimes i do" about Muriel's wedding?

coz i cry too much and it makes me way too sad and crazy and i was Forbidden from watching it but i love it so much sometimes i watch it anyway

[wattleandgum]

I will vouch for the fact that Izzy has been Forbidden to watch Muriel’s Wedding because they get headaches from all the crying and it’s not allowed.